With several accolades already, I hope this book will further help demystify mental illness and irradicate the stigma surrounding it. It’s a comprehensive, remarkable look at mental illness and the lengths we go to encourage sanity. Zack establishes very early on that he’s bi-polar and after a psychotic break that lands him in a mental institution he realizes he needs to come to terms with this diagnosis and rise above the disease if it’s not to define him. Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love by Zack McDermott 5.0 Paperback 16.99 Hardcover 27.00 Paperback 16.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0. Zack was always smart, really smart but mental health isn’t choosy when it comes to its victims and intelligence doesn’t help guard against the darkening at the door. But his mother, kindly known as “The Bird” had other plans for her beloved son. Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a. His upbringing in Wichita Kansas was less than ideal, so much so that if he’d ended up as a meth addict it would have been none too surprising. Written with raw emotional power, humor, and tenderness, Gorilla and the Bird is a bravely honest account of a young mans unraveling and the relationship that saves him. Zack McDermott is a 27-year-old public defender living in Brooklyn. Zack McDermott, a twenty-six-year-old Brooklyn public defender. And beyond that, it’s very much my kind of book. I have a tremendous amount of love for this book.
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